Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-16

must be administered, and the fever must
be watched, and the restless tossing Off Of
the coverlid must be resisted, and the ice
must be kept on the hot temples, and the
perpetual prayer must go up from hearts
soon to be broken.
o, the third watch Of the night! What
stupendous Thoughts whole city al
rest!
Weary arm preparing for to-morrow's
toll. Hot brain being cooled off. Rigid
muscles relaxed. Excited nerves sooth-
J ed The white hair of the octogenarian
| in thin drifts across the pillow, fresh fall
of fakes on snow already fallen. Child
hood with its dlmpled hands thrown out
on the pillow and with every breath TAX
| ing in new store of fun and frolic.
Third watch of the night Gods slum-
berless eye will look. Let one great
wave of refreshing slumber roll over the
heart of the great town, submerging
care, and anxiety, and worriment and
| pain.
Let the city sleep. But, my friends, be
not deceived. There will be thousands
| tonight who will
| NOT SLEEP AT ALL.
Go up that dark alley, and be cautious
where you tread, lest you fall over the
PROSTATE form of drunkard lying on
his own doorstep. Look about you, lest
you feel the garrotter's hug. Look
through the broken window
pane, and see what you can
see. You say: "Eothing." Then
listen. What is 1t? GOOD help us!"
No tootlights, but tragedy ghastlier and
mightier than Ristori Or Edwin Booth
ever enacted. No light, no fire, no bread,
no hope. Shivering in the cold, they
have had no food for twenty-four hours.
You say: "Why don't they beg?" They
do, but they get nothing. You say:
''Why don't they deliver themselves over
! to the almshouse?" All! You would
not ask that if you ever heard the bitter
! cry of a man or child when told he
must go to the almshouse.
ooh" you say, "tney are vicious poor,
and therefore do not deserve our SYM
pathy." Are they vicious? SO much
more need they your pity. The Christian
poor, God helps them. Through their
night there wrinkles the round, merry
star of hope, and through the broken
window pane they see the crystals of
heaven; but the vicious poor, they are
more to be pitied. Their last light has
gone out. You excuse yourself from
helping them by saying they are so bad,
| they brought this trouble on themselves.
l reply, where give ten prayers for the
innocent who are suffering l will give
| twenty prayers for the guilty who are
suffering.
| The fisherman, when he sees a vessel
dashing into the breakers, comes out from
his hut and wraps the Warmest fannels
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most bruised and most battered in the
wreck; and want you to know that these
vicious poor have had two shipWrecks-
soul-shipwreck for time, shipWreck for
eternity. Pity, by all means, the limo
| cent who are suffering, but
PITY MORE THE GUILTY.
Pass on through the alley. Open the
door. "O," you say, sit is locked" No,
| it is not locked. It has never been
| locked No burglar would be tempted to
! go in there to steal anything. The door
is never locked. Only a broken chair
stands against the door. Shove it back.
| Go in. Strike a match. Now, look.
Beastliness and rags. See those glsring
! eyeballs. Be careful now what you say.
Do not inter any insult, do not utter any
suspicion, if you value your life. What
is that red mark on the wall? 1t is the
mark of a murderer's hand!
! Look at those two eyes rising up out of
the darkness and out from the straw in
| the corner, coming toward you, and as
they come near you your light goes out.
| Strike another mitch. All! this is q
babe, not like those beautiful children
presented in baptism. This little one never
smiled; it never will smile. A flower
| flung on an swfully barren beach. Oh!
Heavenly Shepherd, fold that little one in
Thy arms. Wrap around you your shawl
or your coat tighter, for the cold wind
sweeps through.
Strike another match. An is it posi-
BILE that that young woman's scared and
bruised face ever was looked into by m a.
ternaI tenderness? Utter no scorn. Utter
no harsh word. No ray of hope has
dRwned on that brow for many year.
No ray of hope ever will dawn On that
brow. But the light has gone out. Do
not strike another light. It would be
mockery to kindle another light in such a
place as that. Pass out and pass down
the street. Our cities of Brooklyn and
New York and all our great cities are full
of such homes, and the worst time is the
third watch OF the night.
Do you know it is IN this third watch
of the night that criminals do their worst
work? 1t is
THE CRIMINALS WATCH.
At8:30 O'Clock you will find them in
the drinking-ssloon, but toward II
O'Clock they go to their garrets, they get
out their tools, then they start on the
street. Watching on either side for the
police, they 60 to their work of darkness.
This is burglar, and the false key will
soon touch the store lock. This is an in
cendiary, and before morning there will
be light on the sky, and cry of "fre!
fire." This is an assassin, and to-mor-
row morning there will be dead body in
one of the vacant lots. During the day
time these villains in our cities lounge
about, some asleep and some awake, but
when the third watch of the night arrives,
their eye keen, their brain cool, their arm
strong, their foot feet, to fly or pursue
they are ready.
Many of these poor creatures were
brought up that way. They were born in
thieves garrett. Their childish toy was
burglars dark-lantern. The first thing
they remember was their mother ban
dapin0 the brow of their father sfruck nv